Furley: no contest to attempted exploitation

In September 2011, Peter Furley was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child and electronic solicitation. Three additional counts of exploitation of a child were later added.

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By Jessica Seibel

Butler County Times Gazette

By Jessica Seibel

Posted Sep. 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM

By Jessica Seibel
Posted Sep. 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM

El Dorado, Kan.

In September 2011, Peter Furley was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child and electronic solicitation. Three additional counts of exploitation of a child were later added.

At a hearing Monday, District Court Judge Charles Hart accepted Furley’s plea of no contest to one charge of attempted sexual exploitation of a child. As part of the plea agreement, the other four charges against Furley were dropped. Three of the dropped charges were the same as the one Furley pleaded no contest to, while the other one was electronic solicitation of a child.

Furley will appear before Hart on Nov. 1 at 1:30 p.m. for sentencing. Furley could receive up to 34 months in prison.

Furley was arrested after El Dorado Police officers were notified by investigators in the Wichita Police Department and Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit that their Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce had received information from concerned individuals that alleged sexual exploitation of a minor child in an El Dorado home.

Officers acting on this information secured and executed a search warrant at an El Dorado residence in order to insure the welfare of a child.